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Messenion
coin coined in the 493 a.C. |
Ancient
Messina:
the memory urban planning of one art city
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Messenion
coin coined in the 489 a.C. |
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In the eleventh
century with the edict of Roger II, Messina had the title of
Caput Regni, the Consulate of the Sea to which all the inherent
controversies the commerce and the navigation are go referred,
the Mint, franchigie, exemptions, laws, immunity. Her Mint beats
coin for the whole Kingdom with the proud witticism M.N.S.C "Messana
Nobile Siciliae Caput" the following Norman kings and svevi will
grant other privileges, during the period aragonese such
privileges will be confirmed and widened. In that period, under
the urbanistic profile, it occupies the arched basin that
contains the very beautiful one I Bring and the overlooking area
is dominated by the Royal Building characterized from the
Cathedral from the arsenal, from the Building Arcivescovile and
from towered boundaries that include fortitudes.
After the death of William II the Good person ends the
domination of the Norman ones in Sicily. |
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il Palazzo Reale
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The sixteenth century
Fortress of the
Gonzagas rises on the necks to west of the city, it represented a
rampart against the threat on that slope of attacks and invasions
that could strike Messina to the shoulders from the coast tirrenica
through the Peloritanis.
The Strong Gonzaga was let from the
Viceroy build Don Ferrante Gonzaga in 1540. The planning is
attributed to Ferramolino and Maurolico. It rises to a height of 160
meters on the level of the sea and is introduced to irregular
stellar plant with six bastions, of which four to acute angle that
they follow the uneven conformation of the ground. |
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Saint Ignazio De Loyola -
College of the Jesuits
In the 1548 Ignazio De Loyola
founded in Messina
the first College of the Jesuits to the world |
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A press of the XVIII century before the 1783
earthquake destroyed the city and big part of the building artistic patrimony.
The beautiful " Palazzata ", defined also the eighth
wonder of the world, that we see represented in this press, projected and
realized by Simone Gulli in 1622, you/he/she was destroyed in full.
On the left, in foreground, in front of the Point St. Ranieri,
the Royal Building is noticed.
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The Port of Messina
in an incision of Peter Schenk - 1702
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The " Palazzata "
reconstructed to the beginnings of the XIX century
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The " Palazzata " had realized from James Minutoli
on neoclassic model, that it replaced realized by Simone Gulli in 1622, it also
followed the sad fate to be forever railing from the 1908 terrible sisma. |
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The
Fountain of the Neptune
was turned in front of the
Palazzata of the Minutoli
XIX century |
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In the ancient Plaza of the Cathedral
the Fountain of Orione of the Montorsoli.
Damaged by the varied earthquakes and war events,
it has escaped to the varied disasters miraculously
and today it can be admired in the same Plaza.
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It can be noticed in this press that the Bell tower,
after the 1783 earthquake, it was rebuilt without cuspide and was up to
1863 incomplete when was decided each other to demolish it. In the same place
were built two bell towers placed by side to the apses, the 1908 earthquake
destroyed the two towers and big part of the Cathedral.
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From the
Portal, through an atrium with
ceiling at times it enters each
other in a vast courtyard, on I
break down him/it of which detaches
the stupendous stairway of the
Mountain of Pity that anchors today
we admire. |
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The
stairway was built in 1741 from the
architects Campolo and Found her and
it also conducts to the church
square of the Church of
Saint Virgin
Mary of the Pity of the XVIII
century of which remains there,
unfortunately, only the façade,
splendid testimony of the ancient
urban architecture. |
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1900
Military
college
Fountain of
Plaza Cairoli |
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Garibaldi
street |
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Torrent Boccetta |
S. Martino
avenue |
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an extraordinary architectural and artistic patrimony,
canceled forever
from the earthquake and from the memory.
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The Church of Saint Maria of
the Cove to erect from Emanuele Filiberto in 1622 on
project of Simone Gulli.
Destroyed by the 1908 earthquake you/he/she has been
reconstructed, on project of the architect Guido Viola,
as we see her/it in this press of epoch. |
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The beautiful Church of St.
Gregorio destroyed by the 1908 earthquake here
represented to testify the inestimable
artistic-architectural patrimony that has gone of it
lost together with the historical memory. |
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Before the
1908 earthquake - Tower of the Lighthouse - The Lantern |
Before the 1908 earthquake - Astronomic observatory |
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Were built after the 1908 earthquake the buildings
of the
District Lombardo
the engineers Carlo Nava and Charles Brogi planned the construction of it
It was dealt with houses built with systems antisismici with the use of cordoli
of support in armed cement.
The group of villas of two plans with relative quarter was built in the zone in
Messina south,
all the streets took the name of city lombarde. |
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The American Bridge in 1935 |
The
Plaza of the Cathedral - 1950
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The Cinema
Theater Pelòro
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This imposing neoclassic construction of the years
40 has been demolished, unfortunately, to make place to a modern building that
today entertains shops and offices.
Commercial demands and of modernization of the urbanistic fabric you/they have
let complete this other fool. |
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The Cinema Trinacria
of the
years 30
Also this beautiful construction Liberty
has been demolished...
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